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Last year Microsoft, in the annual 500 Superbrands survey, lost its title as top consumer brand to UK to Google. But now the results for the last 12 months have arrived, and Microsoft has regained its crown. A panel of experts and some 2,000 consumers considers around 1,400 brands. Stephen Cheliotis, chief executive of the Centre for Brand Analysis, the company that performed the research for Superbands UK said: "This year's… Read More

The wireless industry trade association 3G Americas has announced new estimates from Informa Telecoms & Media for the number of active mobile connections in service around the world. The verdict? There are about 4 billion mobile connections in service around the world in December 2008, which, if one applies a little arithmetic, implies that some 60 percent of humanity has a cell phone. Of course, the reality is probably a little more… Read More

Two former telemarketers have come up with a device that could put their former colleagues out of a job. Called TrueCall, it’s a buffer between the landline and calls, and can be taught to distinguish between calls that are welcome and those that aren’t. If the number calling is on a welcome list, the call is put through, the BBC reports. Those on a zap list it receives an automated message and your phone never rings. With… Read More

Internet search giant Google has doled out one of those interesting little numbers that make keeping track of the Internet so much fun—except, in this case, the number isn't little at all. According to Google, its systems that spider the Web looking for new content hit a new milestone: one trillion unique URLs on the Web at once. Google admits that many of those URLs actually point to duplicate content or auto-generated… Read More

A new report from the World Information Access Project finds that authoritarian regimes around the world are arresting bloggers more often in an effort to cut down on political dissent, exposure of government corruption, or spreading information a government doesn't want its people—or the world—to know about. And the number of known blogger arrests is probably lower than the actual number who have been detained for… Read More

Research firm CoreBrand has released the results of its 2007 CoreBrand Power 100 study (PDF), and finds that among technology companies, Microsoft and Motorola have seen significant erosion of their brand power over the last four years. The survey polls roughly 12,000 U.S. business decision makers and queries them about their awareness and perceptions of leading consumer brands. According to this year's resuts, Microsoft has dropped… Read More

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) handled a record number of so-called “cybersquatting” complaints in 2007: 2,156 in all, of which about a quarter were settled without the WIPO panel having to get involved, and almost 1,400 of the remaining cases were resolved with the domains being transferred to the complainant whose copyright or trademark was being infringed. Cybersquatting is the practice of registering… Read More

The Apple iPhone has certainly had a tremendous impact on the mobile marketplace, with the last year perhaps fairly categorized as the rest of the mobile industry's attempts to respond to or marginalize the iPhone. Now market research firm In-Stat reports that the iPhone is not just immensely popular where it's available for sale through mobile operators: it's also immensely popular in China, where the company reports… Read More

Can you imagine a phone book that would let you look up all the ways everyone can be contacted, online and off?   That’s the eventual goal of the UK Enum directory.   It will begin alittle less ambitiously, focusing on UK net telephone networks.   Run by Nominet, Enum, also known asTelephone Number Mapping, was set up to “define a Domain Name System (DNS)-based architecture and protocols for mapping a telephone number… Read More

New figures released by Gartner and IDC on comptuer sales during the third quarter of 2007 disagree on some details, but overall paint the same picture: Hewlett Packard continues to occupy the number one spot in the worldwide market, but Dell is staging a sales recovery after several quarters of decline, and media darling Apple is managing to sell plenty of Macs, and has taken over the number three spot in U.S. computer sales. According… Read More

You’d better watch out if you use your iPhone Safari browser to place calls. It turns out that there’s a vulnerability in it that can allow hackers to redirect the calls. The problem was discovered by SPI Dynamics. The Safari browser on the iPhone had a touch screen feature that allows the user to call a number of a web site simply by tapping it. Hackers can install malware that redirects the call to an expensive… Read More

Earlier this year, computer maker Asus lunged at the luxury end of the notebook computer market, introducing its leather-clad S6 line of portables. This holiday season, Asus has not only refreshed the S6′s, it's introducing leather-bound versions of its W6 notebooks—and rolling out a limited number of S6′s in hot pink. Asus hasn't done a very good job of calling out specifications on the S6 and W6 units. We can… Read More

Research and Markets' report Asia Telecom Market, 2005-2006 finds that at the end of 2005, the number of Internet users in China increased to 111 million, making it second only to the United States in terms of the sheer number of citizens using the Internet. (The U.S. tallied some 197.8 million Internet users in 2005.) Japan, India, German, the United Kingdom, and South Korea rounded out the top seven slots, respectively. The report… Read More

A new survey (PDF) from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) found that the number of sites distributing “crimeware”

What if you could call an 800 number as your favorite song played on the radio and use your voice to purchase it through email? That's the idea behind Music on Command, a new service announced today. Music on Command, which currently uses a variety of online music retailers such as Yahoo! Music and MSN Music, requires that you register at their site. Once you have done so, you put a special 800 number on your cell phone's speed… Read More